Teeing Off

Overview

Teeing Off gives one of golf's most unique and well-traveled personalities a chance to, well, "tee off" on some of the most unforgettable characters and experiences he's had in a lifetime of playing and covering the royal and ancient game. Partly a memoir about a lifetime association with golf's greatest performers and most colorful characters, it is also a collection of fascinating inside reminiscences and anecdotes about the game's elite that will entertain, amuse, enlighten, and perhaps surprise readers. Included are stories about Hagen and Hogan, Nelson and Nicklaus, Palmer and Player, Sarazen and Snead, Watson and Woods, and many others by an author who has known them all, up close and personal.

Author Biography

Ken Bowden has edited the annual Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship editions of The Majors of Golf magazines since 1989. He is presently at work on a book entitled How to Look and Act Like a Golfer – Even if Your Game Stinks!. Jack Nicklaus, nicknamed "The Golden Bear", is widely regarded as the most accomplished professional golfer of all time, winning a total of 18 career major championships while producing 19 second place and 9 third place finishes in major events on the PGA Tour over a span of 25 years.

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During his almost 50 years of golf journalism, Ken Bowden edited the premier golf magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, co-authored a dozen books with Jack Nicklaus, and co-produced or collaborated on more than 200 television shows with Britain\'s BBC and American and Japanese networks featuring superstar golfers plus show-biz and other sports-world giants.

He also covered most of the world’s great golf championships, befriended virtually every ace performer of his era, and himself played golf for many years at or near amateur championship level.

In Teeing Off: Players, Techniques, Characters, Experiences, and Reflections from a Lifetime Inside the Game, Bowden richly and colorfully draws back the drapes on every element of those experiences and many more. For example:

• The greatest golfers of all time – and why
• The peopleinside the performers, from Ben Hogan to Jack Nicklaus plus many more
• Possibly the game’s best-ever, super-simple swing “fix”
• The how and why of the finest round ever played
• 007’s surprise dead-of-night conflict
• Bing Crosby’s stunning memory
• The Hollywood giant who stepped on his . . . well, you’ll see!
• “Colorful” or crazy? Fascinating characters from golf’s sidelines
  

Typical of Bowden’s slyly humorous but deep golfing insight is his answer to why play a game that can so often offset immense pleasure with raging anger? Simple, he avers: It’s the incurable addiction golfers develop for the game despite how severely it punishes them!

This is just one of the many wry but so often dead-on insights Teeing Off provides regarding why once it’s got you, golf just won’t let go!

About the Author

Since 1989 Ken Bowden has edited the annual Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship editions of The Majors of Golf magazines. He is presently at work on a book entitled How to Look and Act Like a Golfer – Even if Your Game Stinks!

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